Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers

This best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the heart connected to the reasoning mind.

Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of reflective essays, stories, and poems. Thematically focused on dream-related topics, the readings chapters discuss such topics as memory, myths/fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, the other, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings move from the personal to the abstract, encouraging students to investigate new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and their relationship to fundamental social issues and universal human concerns. Featuring a dual thematic and rhetorical organization, each chapter also provides practical writing advice on a specific rhetorical pattern, strategies for writing, critical thinking questions, and two to three student sample papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting.

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Page 112What evidence does he present for his inference about the birds? Does his
inference seem accurate? Do you think Eiseley makes a projection onto the birds
of his humanistic values? 5. Eiseley s final revelation is much less dramatic than
the ...

Page 185Myths are patterned stories that present the reader with ideal heroes and
heroines acting through dreamlike plots and settings, representing the
fundamental values of a culture and a society. Fairy tales satisfy the needs of
younger people, and ...

Page 331How is this ritual reflective of their culture's values? 4. What relationship exists
between the individual and the community in the Chinese village of the "No
Name Woman"? How is this relationship between the individual and the
community ...